Bret Wood is a filmmaker, film historian, and graphic designer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has long been associated with the distribution company Kino International, which has released several films he has directed:
Kingdom of Shadows: The Rise of the Horror Film (1998),
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003), and
Psychopathia Sexualis: From the Case Histories of Krafft-Ebbing (2006)
All three films simultaneously celebrate and investigate famously perverse pools of visual and literary iconography.
As a historical writer, he is author or editor of books including:
Orson Welles: A Bio-Filmography (1990),
Marihuana, Motherhood, and Madness (1998),
Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film (1999), and
Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim (2002)
Over the last several years, Wood's filmmaking has featured open sexuality within lush, beautiful, and dangerous style; witness, witness
Psychopathia Sexualis but also such short films as
Judgment and
The Sadist and the Masochist.
As a designer, Wood has developed the graceful, elegant designs that have distinguished Kino's promotional materials for the last twenty years.
Very generously, Bret Wood designed the logos for Cinema Purgatorio, LLC.
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